Sunday, October 24, 2010

The stands are still full at Mile H--Invesco Field--at the start of the fourth quarter, with the Broncos suffering probably their worst loss (59-14 at the moment) in franchise history--against freakin' Oakland. I predicted 8-8, but, no way. Let's just call it rebuilding and be done with it. Go Rockies!

Especially idiots. Good thread over at WUWT; or, at least, it chills out a couple of my pettest of peeves--the hysteria over alleged overpopulation, and the all-too-common claim (both advanced even by AGW sceptics) that we're running out of (fill in the blank). There's a guy commenting there under the nom de doof "GM" who is a Malthusian's Malthusian. He thinks human population should be 100 million or less and constantly uses my new-fave meaningless term: "ecological overshoot."

The (Julian) Simonists tear him up. Not, like the Black Knight, that he notices.

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Working better than you thought, ain't it?

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From the bottom up. Hahahahahahahah--oops, my colon just prolapsed.

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Saturday, October 09, 2010

Denver's Columbus Day parade, that is. Until yesterday, anyway. Put in a call to Rick SaBell, the organizer, to see if anything was up, protest-wise (nothing was posted on the Colorado AIM site), but he didn't return it. Luckily, the Post has an anemic account of an anemic parade:

Denver's Sons of Italy Columbus Day Parade, scheduled to go as long as four hours, lasted barely 40 minutes this morning.

There were a few protesters:

Even the group of protesters was on the smallish side and were difficult to hear across Broadway except for a few with microphones.

Did Benjie get arrested?

Sons of Columbus President Rick SaBell said the parade was larger than past years and broke a record for the number of parade entries.

"We've got all three ships, the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria," he said. "We're gaining momentum. Our goal is to restore the history and luster of the parade." . . .

Only been to one, and that was in the heyday of the protests, but the parade itself was pretty unlustrous.

The most prominent feature of the parade were columns of gleaming motorcycles, from classics to elaborate custom-built bikes, that revved their engines to drown out protesters.

Yeah, they did that in 2005 too.

A ring of police surrounded the small group of protesters on Broadway.

Yeah, racist. But the parade was so boring the reporter had to focus on some woman's apparently gimped-up little dog:

Connie Truax's toy schnauzer Lacy was terrified by the cannons [at least they weren't crap cannons] just before the parade started. But when it got moving she charmed the few people scattered along the parade route.

A Tom Tancredo supporter, Truax pushed a wheelchair with Lacy and a stuffed Uncle Sam aboard.

Thursday, October 07, 2010

Just making some sauerkraut and ribs. Ever had those? Old German recipe. Anyway, I was stabbing the ribs with a two-pronged fork to make the deliquescence quicker when I thought of the The Manson Family, and then of Babe, both movies I've seen recently. Fatal Attraction fits in there too, somehow.